DON'T EVER HIRE MR HOOP!!!! AN ABSOLUTE DISASTER!!! LIAR-THIEF-LOSER If there was a 0 star rating I would have used that. Eric Elofson is a nice guy when he is telling you everything you want to hear, lying to your face and taking your money. Then, Good Luck getting in touch with him. He disappears off the face of the earth. He does not return phone calls, texts or other forms of communication until you try multiple times over several days and then 2 or 3 days later he will send you a one line message saying is coming on a certain day. But, he NEVER comes. Because he is a liar. He will make up more excuses then you could ever imagine. You have heard it all from this coward. He has no interest in you or the job he said he would do for you. He quite simply does not care. Because he is a liar and a thief and a coward. Luckily for me, I live in a summer community with 275 other families, under a condo association. I was the point person for this project to replace both hoops at our basketball court. After dealing with his lies, excuses and broken promises I turned it over to our condo association. Luckily for us we have our own attorney and once he was threatened with legal action multiple times he finally came. This was 6 weeks after his original target date. Six weeks of the summer where all the kids did not have the new hoops that we all paid for. Once he had our $3000 deposit, he was nowhere to be found unless you call and call and call and call. Then he will lie some more. Then you will keep calling. Then he will lie some more. Then he will promise, and not show. Then he will lie, and not show. Then he will disappear, then he will lie. When he did come....what a joke. He showed up without the right equipment so had to leave the job site for two hours to get the right thing. He had two middle-aged overweight clowns with him who clearly had never done this work before and could barely climb the staging. Oh yeah-they had no step ladder and no level. Why would you need those when installing basketball hoops? Then Eric had to leave again because he had the wrong size bolts for part of the assembly. When they were done one hoop was 9'11' and one was 9' 9 3/4". This was after ASSURING me they would both ABSOLUTELY, DEFINITELY BE EXACTLY 10 FEET. He had NO ANSWERS for all of my complaints about him and just excuse after excuse about why the hoops are the wrong height. He didn't care and he got in his truck and left. Maybe that was the best thing for us. Also, while I was arguing with Eric one of his stooges threatened me. Nice professional business huh? The other dirtbag that was with him also yelled things at us as he was leaving. Nice guys huh? Nice professional business Eric. So now we have to figure out how to fix his terrible work. In short DON'T EVER HIRE ERIC ELOFSON (MR HOOP) FOR YOUR PROJECT. HE IS A LIAR AND WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND THEN DISAPPEAR!! WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!!!! read more

I contacted Mr. Hoop (Eric) in Mid-September 2016 about installing a hoop and painting a court on my driveway. Eric was prompt in getting back to me and came by the house later that week to measure. This hoop is a surprise birthday present for my son who was going to be out of town the last week of September. The plan was to install it during the week that he was gone so upon his return he would have a great surprise coming up the driveway. Eric and I entered into a contract and I pre-paid the entire amount to get a discount. A one-week install is a tight turn-around because you are dealing with drying cement and weather. Eric's crew arrived the Monday of the "surprise" week and dug the hole and poured the cement for the base of the pole. After the 3-day cure, the crew returned and install the hoop and painted the court the day before my son returned. The hoop and painting are fantastic. My son was tremendously excited and I was thrilled with the quality and timeliness of the service. Well done! read more

When you look around for a basketball hoop in Central MA, everyone seems to use Mr. Hoop. I didn't read the reviews before booking with him, I just used who many others had used. The Good The Hoop is installed, looks great, and works exactly as expected. The Bad It took 4 weeks. Eric is very unorganized. He always claims he will be there next week and it is always a 3~6 week wait. This seems fairly consistent for every person I have talked to. Data: of the 6 people in central MA I know with new hoops. 5 waited at least 4 weeks to have it installed, 1 was installed right at 24 days. If you are going to buy from him expect a delay. The Fishy I know it is hard to run a small business but based on his practices there is a lot of money not being reported as income. Mostly cash under the table. Checks are made out to his name, not the business. It just seems a little "off". For a 28 year old business it seems very thrown together. read more

We loved working w/ Eric and Mr Hoop. Eric knew everything there was to know about outside courts and really helped us build the perfect setting in our backyard. He had a slight delay in shipping our hoop, which he kept me in the loop on. I have to believe that the reviews below were from people that were impatient during this process. It took him a couple of extra weeks to get our hoop up but not a big deal. He took our old hoop away and the area was extremely clean when he left. Your crazy if you don't hire this guy to put your court in. read more

HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE! The guys is a Scam Artist! He took our money and never finished the project. We've spent 3 months calling and emailing trying to track him down. Could have done it ourselves in the time we've wasted on him. Wish we had seen these reviews before contracting him. It's clear from the reviews here that he's a Slime-ball that has no problem ripping off kids. STEER CLEAR! read more

Do not use this guy. He's a crook. Your kids will be disappointed. He will steal your money. Legal action will not resolve anything. We actually had the Wellesley police knock on his door and ask him to refund our money after 3 months which he did. read more

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These 5 star reviews are all the same. Either he got 5 stars or 1 star for ripping off A LOT of people. Sounds fishy to me...

Do not hire this pig of a human. He is dishonest and steals from your home and cars.

Bad business. Took deposit and ran. $1500. Scam artist ALERT!! NEGATIVE STARS read more

Eric stiffed us out of $1000 and won't have the decency to return our money.